APRIL 4, 2025 - U.S. and Australian forces demonstrated their combined focus on cooperation, warfighting effectiveness and lethality in the Indo-Pacific space domain during the Avalon International Airshow and Trade Days, March 25-30. Avalon is the Southern Hemisphere’s largest airshow and aerospace and defense exposition. During the 2025 event, multiple industry exhibits, … [Read more...]
Special Ops Using Missionized Skyraider II
APRIL 4, 2025 – The Skyraider II officially joins the Air Force Special Operations Command fleet with the delivery of the first missionized aircraft to Hurlburt Field on April 3, 2025. U.S. Special Operations Command representatives and AFSOC leadership joined elected officials and community leaders in a ceremony marking the acceptance. The delivery marks the start of a new … [Read more...]
Navy Needs an Advanced Underwater Communication Solution
APRIL 4, 2025 - Funding opportunities are available in the AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025 for commercial technologies to solve undersea and information warfare issues. As the second collaboration launched between the U.S.'s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Australia's Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA), and the UK's Defence and Security Accelerator … [Read more...]
Practicum Prepares Students for Combat Operations
APRIL 4, 2025 – Classrooms at the Command and General Staff College, organized to replicate a real division command post, were a flurry of communications and activity March 26-28, 2025, as students participated in a Division Offensive Operation practicum. Significant time was devoted to conducting a targeting working group, which was a student led replication of division … [Read more...]
The 80th Annual Reunion
From left to right, Joseph Young, Charge d’Affaires for U.S. Embassy Tokyo; the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Eric Smith; and the Honorable Peter Hegseth, United States Secretary of Defense, lay a commemoration wreath at the Reunion of Honor memorial during the 80th Reunion of Honor ceremony at Iwo To, Japan, March 29, 2025. The 80th Reunion of Honor is a milestone … [Read more...]